The Research On The Monitoring Of Teaching Quality Based On The Professional Development Of Univerisity Teachers

Teaching quality of university is a hot issue that attracts attention of all society after China completed the transition from elite to mass higher education. Teaching quality monitoring is a managerial measure to protect and improve teaching quality in university. There are many factors that influence the teaching quality in a university, but only the key and ruling factor is useful to be studied in the process of monitoring. To a university, the professional development of teachers not only directly influence the teaching quality of university, but also decide its' future development of teaching quality. In other words, the teacher professional development is a key and ruling factor of university's teaching quality.Therefore, studying the teaching quality monitoring based on professional development of university teachers is meritorious in theory and in practice. First, this study shall perfect the theory of teacher professional development. Teacher professional development theory always aims at the primary and middle school teachers, but not the university teachers. But this paper shall discuss the professional development of university teachers. Second, this paper shall give much more directions and guidance for the teaching quality monitoring.This paper including the following five chapters:Chapter one is an introduction, which tells the reasons for doing this research, gives definition of professional development of university teachers and teaching quality monitoring, sums up the relative research of home and abroad, explain the process and way of research.Chapter two illuminates the professional development of university teachers. First, Professional development of university teachers is the process of accumulating professional knowledge about teaching and researching, of improving the ability to teach and research, of forming a "professional ego". Second, the professional development is also a lifelong process, which can be divided into three stages: the youth, the middle age, and the old age. During each professional development stage, it's better for them to finish some professional development work. Finally, the feature and the influential factors of professional development for teachers has been point out.Chapter three introduces the current situation about teacher development and teaching quality monitoring of the university. The investigation of questionnaire showed that most of the university teachers have the quality as a teacher, but the quality as a researcher need to be improved, and the current monitoring of teaching quality is not effective in proving teacher's teaching ability. The informal interview tells us that the teacher and the monitor seldom communicate with each other, which seriously influence the effectiveness of monitoring.Chapter four discusses the principles of teaching quality monitoring based on teacher professional development of university teachers. We believe that the combination of teachers-centered and students-centered thoughts, the union of suitable controlling and respective admiration, the combination of objective direction and positive expectation and the integration of hard manegement and soft manegement would be good principles in this teaching quality monitoring.Chapter five explores the model of teaching quality monitoring based on teacher professional development of university teacher. This model insists that we should choose target and content of monitoring . implement and evaluate the monitoring under the guidance of "human-centered" values.Chapter six suggests that to implement of teaching quality monitoring based on teacher professional development, the managerial organization should set up a system of rules, such as rules for developmental teaching assessment, for sabbatical leave, teacher self-evaluation mechanism and rules for TQM.